EMPIRE AIR CHAIN
NEW ZEALAND AS BASE., [per press association.] AUCKLAND, December 7. The opinion that the Pacific would provide one of the main air routes of (he world was expressed by Mr. H. 0. Houchen, chief engineer of the Tasman Empire Airways, who arrived at Auckland this week, to take over the active supervision of the work in this country. “Already the time is arriving when the Pacific has got to be regarded as an air route of importance to the Empire,” he said “in the meantime the Tasman service will provide information that will be useful when we come to tackle the job. When that is accomplished, we will have the world linked up in a big chain of air routes. A big organisation will be required. If it is based here in New Zealand, as we all expect, it will be the biggest in the world. If it does not eventuate, I for one will be very disappointed.” He would not comment on the plans for the Tasman service, as that matter was not in his hands. Asked about the delivery of flying-boats of the Aotearoa type that were to be used on the service, he said, “One more certainly will be arriving, but I do not know about a third.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1939, Page 14
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